Richard Richardson

Richard Richardson (1704-September 1780) was a colonel of the United States during the French and Indian War and American Revolutionary War.

Biography
Richardson was born in Virginia in 1704, and he became a surveyor at the same time as George Washington. He later settled in Craven County, South Carolina and became a colonel of the South Carolinian militia in 1757 during the French and Indian War. He took part in the expedition against the Cherokee Nations in 1760-61, and in 1775 he became a colonel of the independent army of the United States during the American Revolutionary War. Richardson quashed the Tories of Fort Ninety-Six in the November-December 1775 Snow Campaign, but he was captured at the Siege of Charleston and died in British captivity.